When I was younger I thought that the 20th century would see the end of Fascism and the beginning of the end of Religion. That Science would result in an informed populace in relation to Evolution and Cosmology and Ecology. That Medical Science, through vaccination, would see the end of many common diseases, and the […]
When I was younger, a teenager perhaps, or aged in my 20s and 30s, my friends and I had conversations about science, philosophy, literature, atheism, film, history, careers, politics. Now I am 80 we talk about cancer, heart attacks, bone breakage, kidney failure, dementia, liver disease, sleep problems, failing senses.
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You\’d think …. well, I\’d think … that the days of the internet and DuckDuckGo would have led to such an explosion of accesible knowledge as to see the end of religious belief. I know, naive, the religious parasite always finds a way to survive and thrive. I had pictured people who knew nothing of
As I slowly return to the land of the blogger after very little activity for the last 2 and a half years I thought I should lay down some blog markers for my subscribers and casual visitors. Your host is Australian by birth and British by ancestry. I became an Atheist at a young age,
Increasingly I find it hard to read with these old stroke-affected eyes. And to write. So that\’s all a bit of a bugger…
When you are young you think, wrongly, that your current pleasant state of health and fitness and mental acuity and a sense of boundless possibilities in the life ahead, will last forever. When you are old the opposite of all that is true.
This morning while waiting for the first potential buyers of this paradise to arrive, a family of 5 Nankeen Kestrels swooped and dived and called over the front garden in a stunning aerial display as if to say – hey, you\’ll be losing us soon, losing all of us, all of this.
Just like Australia (Abbott, Morrison), America (Reagan, Bush jr) has had its share of leaders with IQs approaching negative territory. Damaging to a country but not completely wrecking it, and recoverable when positive IQs return to the leader\’s desk. But in Trump America has found a uniquely malignant leader with a combination of -IQ, total
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Some time ago, oh, I don\’t know, 30 years perhaps, I was moving a small flock of sheep from one area to another. They were well-behaved sheep and easy to work, so they were just moving in a clump before me as I absentmindedly walked behind them. Suddenly I became aware that the flock had
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Has anyone in real life (not the movies) ever said, in response to some pereceived danger, \”oh well, gotta die some time\”? Of course not, yet somehow script writers have people speaking this sentence all the time.
